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The Meaning Of The Soldier: In The Year Of The Pig And Hearts And Minds, Laura Browder
The Meaning Of The Soldier: In The Year Of The Pig And Hearts And Minds, Laura Browder
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In the Year of the Pig (1968) and Hearts and Minds (1974)—the first an Academy Award nominee, the second an Academy Award winner—are the two best-known Vietnam War documentaries of their time. They are works that could hardly be more different—one a cool, intellectual take on the origins and then-current state of the war, and the second a highly emotional appeal to end the war. By viewing them together it is possible not only to connect the dots between the contrasting intellectual and filmic traditions from which each emerged, but also to see, through the viewpoints of each film, how …